slave owner

1. 1.

   someone who holds slaves

   Synonymsslaveholderslaver

   Broaderholder

Questions about slave owner

What does slave owner mean?

slave owner means "someone who holds slaves".

What is another word for slave owner?

Close synonyms include slaveholder, slaver. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slave owner a common word?

slave owner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.